A Mission

WED., JAN. 7, 1987, 6:22 AM
FARM, STUDY

What is a mission? How does it relate to the life of spirit, lived here in the earth? You obviously could turn to the dictionary for definitions and clarifications, but this morning you shall listen to ways in which I, the Holy Spirit, use this term… and how I would have it relate to your life, o son.

First, a mission can be a task to accomplish, which can be quite short term and quite specific. Any class that you teach… even a specific class session… can be a mission. You have an objective and a way to accomplish it. To attempt and succeed is your mission.

A mission also can be longer term, an involvement of months, or even years, of your life. In this latter portion of your professional career I have given you… and you have accepted… the mission of helping to restore the spiritual dimension to the concept of health. There is no clear, single way to do this, so you must devise some, discover some, and follow My suggestions. One approach can lead to another, and all are rather mystically coordinated by a sense of mission.

I have given you Christians a mission – to bring the message of Jesus Christ to the world… to every human. It is a message of love and acceptance… a message of sacrifice and giving… a message of selflessness. And what a world this would be if this mission were universally accepted and lived! But just as you have other missions besides your spiritual one, so most Christians have other and competing missions. It is eternally interesting to Me to see that many who acknowledge a Christian mission also accept a mission of military dominance which could annihilate portions of human life. To see My rather gentle Gospel combined with military might and with fears of being overwhelmed by an enemy is… well, interesting.

Then, in a longer sense, your life is a mission. In the early years it is largely a response to others. When you begin to develop a sense of self and a sense of your capacities in relation to those of others you begin to develop a conscious life mission. Your professional career commenced with a sense of mission – helping young men develop through competitive athletics. You also had classroom opportunities, and, finally, this seemed a better arena for your continued mission than the field or the track. As you look back, however, you can see that your life mission has been in teaching, but also in just affecting lives. You haven’t been an overt evangelist for Christ, but this relationship with the Christ spirit has been a motivator for many of your life actions.

You also know that you are on a longer path than just this one earth life. This is not a mission really, but a path affected by your various missions. You don’t have a mission to return to Me. Rather, your eventual return to Me shall be influenced by the missions you accept and generate and by the ways in which you accomplish them.

A mission is also a place of prayer, of learning, and of sanctuary. It is a place, but more importantly it is a spirit – a spirit of giving out and of taking in. You… and your office… and this Farm… can be missions, in this sense.